Kid Recipe - Chinese Chickenless Salad

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Here's a dinner recipe that my son loves!

 

Chinese Chickenless Salad

1 Napa Cabbage (or some type of green cabbage) finely shredded

2C Mung bean sprouts

1C Snow Peas, stemmed

4 Green onions, finely chopped

2 Stalks celery, finely chopped

1 Carrot, finely grated

8 Pieces of dried apricosts, soadked in 1/2 C water for 4 hours (save soak

water)

1/4C Sesame seeds, soaked 6 hours

1/2T Ginger

1/2T Mustard

3T Lemon juice (fresh)

1/4C Namo Shoyu (I use dulse or celtic sea salt instead - but not a fourth

cup)

1/4C Flax Oil

 

In a large bowl, layer cabbage, mung bean sprouts, snow peas, green onions,

celery, and carrots. In a blender, mix remaining ingredients until smooth,

using soak water to adjust consistency. Sauce should be thick but not a paste.

Pour over salad and toss.

 

 

seattleponyrides <seattleponyrides wrote:

Hi Paula,

Thanks for the book idea. I read Boutenkos story about her family (in 12

steps to Raw foods) and it seemed wonderful, idealistic and thoroughly

impossible! (lol!), but maybe she goes into more depth in the Raw Family

book. I'll look into it, thanks again.

I did have a good experience with my 10 year old today.

Last night I told her no more milk and she cried! She literally had tears

and great sadness about it. So I explained my reasons for not buying it

anymore and that I would get her as much of her favorite fruit as she

wanted.

Today, I bought grapes and mangos (her favs.) and plenty of other fruits to

make a nice assortment. She then was given full freedom with the juicer to

make her own concoctions and she was enthusiastic and I must say, today, I

had the best tasting apple, cranberry, mandarin orange, grape juice I have

ever tasted in my life! She was very proud of herself and I was proud too.

I think tomorrow we'll work on blended smoothie type concoctions.

 

On a sour note, she traded her fruit leather for teriokki (sp?) chicken at

school! lol!

Oh well, It's a start anyway. Terrioki (sp?) is one of her absolute

favorite foods.

Little by little we'll get there with the kids!

 

Love to hear recipes that kids like if any of you have any, I'd love to hear

of it.

I tried one that I was told the other night at Nora's house.

Macadamia nuts, strawberries and a couple dates in the vita mix and it

tastes like strawberry yogurt-pudding heaven! the kids did love that one,

and I had a little myself for dessert!

 

 

Trish

 

 

 

 

Paula Wood [wolfmother1]

Monday, November 15, 2004 10:50 AM

RawSeattle

RE: [RawSeattle] new to group

 

 

 

I am very sad to say that my 10 year old son is still eating the Standard

American Diet. He will eat Live food at potlucks, but when I try to fix him

something at home, he turns his nose up at it and refuses to eat. When I

first started eating Live foods (January 2004) I told him he had to eat what

I ate when he was around me - basically every meal I fixed for us was raw,

and that's what he was to eat. If we were out, at grandmas house or

somewhere, he could eat whatever they were serving. Well, it backfired on

me. All he would eat was fruit when he was with me. He ended up gaining a

good 10 pounds. (I think people were feeling sorry for him - his evil

mother giving him all this healthy food! - They gave him extra servings and

extra sweets.) So, now I have him on basically the South Beach Diet which

promotes whole foods. Still it's hard for him when he can't have soda,

popcorn, candy, cookies, Fruit Rollups and all the other CRAP parents are

feeding their kids today. He

takes it personally, and feels like I am being a mean mom, turning him into

a freak. I end up feeling guilty either way.

 

It's difficult to go against the grain of society. And I feel extremely

frustrated about it. My heart hurts every time I see an obese child - or

adult for that matter. It hurts because I now know the answer, but talking

about it to most people seems to be like casting pearls to swine. I have

been talking to dear friends about my experiences eating Live foods since

January, when I started. One of them has decided to try a 30 day cleanse,

eating only raw food. But that's only one. People are so attached to the

way they live their life and their habbits. So many social activities

include eating or drinking something. I recently went to a friends house

for dinner, and she was asking what she could fix so that I could eat with

the family. Well, at the time I was only juicing and couldn't eat anything.

She said she felt bad not being able to fix something for me to eat. She

didn't want to leave me out. I appeased her a little by mentioning the

following, " plenty of people have

eating restrictions these days. Just think of it as if I am on weight

watchers and can't eat the birthday cake and ice cream at the birthday

party - except with more restrictios " . I also told her that I like the way

I eat. Everything is so full of flavor and in it's most beautiful and

natural state. Easy for an adult to understand, but perhaps not a child -

especially if the child doesn't want to.

 

To wrap things up here, perhaps the more heart to heart conversations we can

have with our children about the way we choose to eat, the more they may

feel ok about the Live Food choice. I am trying to get my son to read to me

out of raw books (or books like Diet For A New America) while I prepare

meals. That way the information is not coming from me. I had him read Raw

Family by the Boutenkos. It was good for him to read about other kids

making the 'Raw' choice. Most children have a delicate heart, and if they

knew how the animals were treated, they might be turned on to the Live Foods

idea. I just keep talking to him about it. I realized early on that I

couldn't make him do it, that, ufortunately at age 10 he is too old for me

to dictate to him that he will only eat Live foods.

 

Getting our children to make a Live Food choice may also be a community

effort - takes a village to raise a child and all that.

 

Paula

 

 

seattleponyrides <seattleponyrides wrote:

 

I am new to the group too.

I have a 10 year old daughter and a 5 year old daughter.

I am in South Seattle.

 

How do you folks with kids keep them raw when they go off to school or go to

grandmas?

 

I'm trying to transition my kids.

 

Trish

Paula Wood [wolfmother1]

Monday, November 15, 2004 7:33 AM

RawSeattle

Re: [RawSeattle] new to group

 

 

Hi Cathy,

I have a 10 year old son that would love to have some company his age at

the potlucks.

Paula

 

yellowrainbowgirl <yellowrainbow wrote:

 

 

Hello, I'm new to the group. I am about to embark on a raw foods

transition. I am currently eating vegetarian/vegan. I've been eating

vegetarian since I was 19. I am 34 now and I have an 8 year old

daughter. I live in Kirkland and teach yoga. Are there any potlucks

to come soon?

 

I look forward to meeting you!

Cathy